Category Archives: Research Assistance

Digital Literacy – How literate are you?

What do you think of when you hear the phrase digital literacy?  Knowing how to use Google to make a restaurant reservation?   Being able to  knock out a PowerPoint presentation that won’t put your audience to sleep? Sure that’s all part of it.  It’s also knowing when the right source of information may be a print dictionary.  While there may not be a clear agreed upon definition,  the concept addresses the ability to “recognize when information is needed and have...

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Internet Resources, Research Assistance Updated: April 1, 2015

Finding health statistics

Looking for health related stats can be a daunting task. There’s so much info out there, how do you find the right fact?   The good news is lots of reliable info is freely available through various federal government sites.  Many have tutorials to help with use of the data.   A good place to start is the National Center for Health Statistics site maintained by the CDC [Center for  Disease Control]. You can find birth, death, marriage and death...

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Internet Resources, Medical Resources, Research Assistance Updated: January 21, 2015

Citation Flavors

The way citations are written often depends on the discipline.  Many use MLA (English), APA (psychology or nursing) or Chicago  style (history), which are found at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/.  These handbooks are also in Reference if one needs a more detailed point explained. Biology uses Scientific style and format : the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers,  available in Reference: T 11 .S386 2006. Chemistry uses The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information.  Located in Reference QD 8.5 .A25 2006. IEEE has a citation guide...

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Research Assistance Updated: June 10, 2014

DSM-5

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) was published by the American Psychiatric Association in May 2013 and serves as the standard for classifying and diagnosing mental disorders. It supersedes the DSM-IV-TR. The DSM-5 “is intended to be applicable in a wide array of contexts and used by clinicians and researchers of many different orientations (e.g., biological, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, family/systems). The DSM-5 has been designed for use across clinical settings (inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison,...

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Research Assistance Updated: May 28, 2014

Finding reliable drug information

It can be difficult to find reliable information in medications on the web.   As with all websites,  you need to ask yourself who created this site and what’s the intent.  Websites about specific drugs are often created by pharmaceutical companies and are for marketing purposes.  Be skeptical of site with a .com address:  Lunesta.com and Purplepill.com  [for Prilosec] are intended to sell the drug. There still could be useful information there, but you’re better off using sites intended to produce...

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Internet Resources, Research Assistance, Uncategorized Updated: May 23, 2014

It’s Final Exam Time!

McNichols Library Hours April 21 – 28 Monday – Thursday  8:00am – Midnight Friday  8:00am – 5:30pm Saturday 9:00am – 5:00pm Sunday  12:00pm – 8:00pm Monday  8:00am – 7:30pm If you need assistance, call the Research Desk at 313-993-1071 or chat live. A librarian is available from open to close. Need a Scantron? We have red & green for 50¢ at the Research Desk. This just in…the library now carries Blue Books for 75¢ at the Research Desk! Good luck on...

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Research Assistance Updated: April 23, 2014

Exporting an Article From Google Scholar to RefWorks

Exporting from a Google Scholar article is very easy. Find the article you wish to cite, click Import into RefWorks (appears below the article reference). RefWorks will automatically open to the login page. Once you have logged in, RefWorks will put the citation in a last imported folder. Click View Last Imported Folder to see the citation in RefWorks. Viola! Your citation is now in RefWorks.  You may now add it to any folder with your other research references....

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Research Assistance Updated: February 10, 2014

Can You Help Me Find This Article?

One of the most often asked questions the librarians hear is, “Can you help me find this article”? The student has a citation and is seeking access to the complete article. The library has a tool labeled “Find online journals by title” that will allow the user to locate full-text journals in the UDM databases. Here is how it works. Let’s say you have the following citation and you’re looking for the full-text of the article. Ashkin, Evan, and Anne...

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Research Assistance Updated: February 5, 2014

Attaching Your Research Paper in RefWorks

Tired of the dog eating your papers, or losing your jump drive? Want to save a draft of your paper in the cloud? You can do it in RefWorks. First, save your paper either on your computer or on a jump drive. Now, open RefWorks and create a citation. To create a citation in RefWorks go to References, click Add New. Type your own name as author, and if you wish, give it a title–the same as your paper or...

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Research Assistance Updated: October 14, 2013

Attaching Full Text Articles to a RefWorks Reference

Have you ever printed out articles full text from a database only to discover days later that you are missing the last page or two? Or saved the article to your jump drive and can’t find it? Worry no more. You can attach the full text of any article to its reference in RefWorks. Here’s how: Login to RefWorks in Mozilla Firefox. Export the reference to RefWorks. Save the article full text to either your computer or a jump drive....

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Research Assistance Updated: February 10, 2014
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